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BS, folks. There\u2019s nothing in it for these people to go there. Especially after he\u2019s in the White House. What\u2019s he going to do, then? There\u2019s nothing they can do, anyway. The French are standing side by side just watching the starvation going on in Sudan; they\u2019re not doing anything about it. The French stood away and looked at what was going on in Rwanda, didn\u2019t do anything about it. There\u2019s no magic to French troops. What\u2019s the last thing the French won? I mean they\u2019re more known for their surrenders, aren\u2019t they? When\u2019s the last time the Germans won? (Laughing.) Gotcha. What is it? What\u2019s the magic with these people? What\u2019s wrong, we can\u2019t do the job? This is astounding to me.<\/line> <\/line>All right. Now, I want you to listen to this. We\u2019ve got these bites ready to go here again. And it\u2019s — it just approves that the whole presidential campaign of John Kerry and the Democrats is oriented around Iraq. That\u2019s the thing that they just hope goes wrong. That\u2019s the thing that they want to focus on because that\u2019s where Bush lied, <\/emphasize>and that\u2019s where Bush took us and we shouldn\u2019t have gone and that\u2019s where American soldiers are dying and they\u2019re waiting to count up the 1,000th soldier\u2019s death as a milestone because they think that\u2019s going to be a big deal to hurting Bush and so forth. So here we go again. <\/emphasize>Now, I\u2019ve set it up. Now listen.<\/line> <\/line> KERRY: I…know…what…we…have…to do in Iraq. We need a president who has the credibility to bring our allies to our side, because that\u2019s the right way to get the job done in Iraq and bring our troops home. Finally, I want to say something about the plan that the president announced on Monday to withdraw 70,000 troops from Asia and Europe. Nobody wants to bring troops home more than those of us who have fought in foreign wars. But it needs to be done at the right time and in a sensible way. This is not that time or that way. Let\u2019s be clear. The president\u2019s vaguely stated plan does not strengthen our hand in the war on terror. It in no way relieves the strain on our overextended military personnel. It doesn\u2019t even begin until 2006 — <\/line> <\/line>RUSH: Well, what are you complaining about it for?<\/line> <\/line>KERRY: —and then it takes ten years to achieve, and this hastily announced plan raises more doubts about our conventions and our commitment than it provides real answers.<\/line> <\/line>RUSH: I\u2019m telling you, folks, we have an identity crisis staring at us and it\u2019s called John Kerry. He doesn\u2019t know who he is. It\u2019s not only he doesn\u2019t know who he is from day to day. He doesn\u2019t know who he is from paragraph to paragraph in a single speech. We\u2019re gonna bring the troops home in Iraq and we\u2019re going to get the French and the Germans and our allies to take over.<\/line> <\/line>Then <\/emphasize>he says this is a hastily drawn plan. What do you mean? We\u2019re going to bring troops home? It doesn\u2019t start till 2006, and it takes ten years to achieve. This is vaguely stated. This is not right. This is not smart. On the one hand he says this is “hasty action” and then he says it doesn\u2019t start till 2006. It\u2019s going to take ten years. Uh, this is why, ladies and gentlemen, you need a clear-thinking individual like me to be able to keep track of all this for you, because this is actually a jigsaw puzzle. <\/line><\/p>\n

Kerry did not deliver a speech today. He threw the pieces of himself out there on the floor at the VFW and we\u2019re here trying to put \u2019em back together in a way that makes sense because when the pieces get put together the way he wants them we still have a jigsaw puzzle that is unassembled. This is a mind-boggling speech. We\u2019re gonna bring the troops home from Iraq. We\u2019re going to get our allies who have nothing to gain, and they\u2019ve never said they\u2019re going to go. Has anybody gone and asked them? Some people have. You know, there have been some European journalists have gone over there and asked some of these foreign leaders, “Uh, you gonna help Kerry?” They\u2019re all saying no. <\/line> We had the story for you last week. You know, but I would think, after he keeps saying this, I would think there would be some enterprising American elite partisan media journalist to go over there and say, “Hey, Mr. Chirac, Senator Kerry is pretty much pledging your country to go to Iraq and take over for us,” and I\u2019d go to Gerhard Schroeder and I\u2019d say, “Senator Kerry is pledging your country to join the French in Iraq and basically take over for us till we can bring our troops home. Is that the plan?” I\u2019d like to know what these guys would say if they were asked that question. We know what the answer is, and this is all BS. This is just smoke and mirrors. This whole business of alliances anyway, we\u2019ve got allies over there. Every time he makes a speech like this he insults the people that are there helping us out and there are 30 nations or more who have contributed in any number of ways — and I still haven\u2019t gotten to the pi?ce de r?sistance to this speech.<\/line><\/p>\n

EIB PROFIT CENTER TIMEOUT <\/line>RUSH: You know, for the longest time, ladies and gentlemen, I have been doing the job the mainstream media used to do — and for a long time I enjoyed it. I loved filling the void. I\u2019m getting tired of doing it now. I\u2019m getting tired of doing the job they used to do. The analysis you\u2019re hearing of this speech today in the old days the mainstream press would have done some of this because it\u2019s so unreal. Now, stop and think for a second. Why would the French and the Germans send troops to Iraq at the same time we are withdrawing ours? That is what Kerry has said is going to happen, and he said it in this speech. <\/line> Prior to this speech, he said that six months after he becomes president, he\u2019s going to start withdrawing our troops from Iraq. Six months to a year. He said that! We\u2019re all wondering, “Well, that\u2019s really brilliant. You go ahead and tell the terrorist bad guys of the world that their enemy is leaving in six months to a year, they can go on a siesta. They can go out there and drink pi?a coladas, pretend there\u2019s an ocean and go to the beach, wait for us to leave and run in there and take the country, take it back.” But no, that won\u2019t happen because as we\u2019re leaving the French and the Germans are going to come rollin\u2019 in just because John Kerry is president. Come on, folks! This is not possible. You can\u2019t even visualize it. This is a cartoon if you visualize it. <\/line>END TRANSCRIPT<\/line><\/p>\n

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BS, folks. There\u2019s nothing in it for these people to go there. Especially after he\u2019s in the White House. What\u2019s he going to do, then? There\u2019s nothing they can do, anyway. The French are standing side by side just watching the starvation going on in Sudan; they\u2019re not doing anything about it. 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